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Staff Software Engineer - Spend

Rippling· Engineering
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Bangalore, Indiafull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer role on the Spend Management team at Rippling, focusing on building highly available, scalable, low-latency platform solutions for corporate spending across cards, expense management, and accounting automation.

Responsibilities

  • Craft exceptional platform solutions that will benefit multiple teams to create a seamless user experience.
  • Be hands-on in technical architecture and be the liaison between product leadership, engineering leadership, and technical workstreams
  • Tackle complex engineering challenges, leveraging your expertise to devise ingenious solutions that push the boundaries of what is possible.
  • Assume clear ownership of your projects, empowering you to make impactful decisions and drive their successful implementation.
  • Play a pivotal role in leading and mentoring highly talented engineers across Spend Management.
  • Immerse yourself in one of Rippling's newest and most influential products, becoming a true authority and contributing to its ongoing development.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record in backend development and distributed systems.
  • Proven ability to design large-scale, fault-tolerant systems from scratch. You understand the trade-offs between consistency and availability and know when 'eventual consistency' is not enough.
  • High Agency: you thrive in ambiguity, identify business problems, scope technical solutions, and execute.
  • Domain Agility: ability to master treasury and money movement domain quickly.
  • Deep proficiency in a modern backend language (Python, Go, Java, etc.) plus experience with complex data modeling (SQL/NoSQL).
  • Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts to engineering and non-engineering audiences.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systems designData modelingCommunication
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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